https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402608
Bug ID: 402608 Summary: Screen occasionally goes black for a second or two before coming back Product: plasmashell Version: 5.14.4 Platform: Archlinux Packages OS: Linux Status: REPORTED Severity: crash Priority: NOR Component: generic-crash Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org Reporter: dekaymail+...@gmail.com Target Milestone: 1.0 SUMMARY My screen will occassionally black out for a second or so while I am doing nothing but simply reading Reddit on Firefox. Sometimes it will flash for a second time just a few seconds later. It almost seems like something is crashing and restarting, so I've made my best guess and assigned it to the generic-crash component. Some details on my setup - running Arch Linux updated just a few days ago - Ryzen 1700 on an X370 Taichi with 16G of RAM - ROG-STRIX-RX560 RX 560 Graphic Card with AMDGPU drivers - using X11 with KWin's OpenGL 3.1 rendering backend - using Redshit and Plasma applet, but have had the screen flash on me whether it is enabled or disabled - screensaver is disabled - kernel 4.19.11-arch1-1-ARCH I see these errors from journalctl Dec 27 08:17:26 ryzen plasmashell[955]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.taskmanager/contents/ui/Task.qml:342: Unable to assign [undefined] to int Dec 27 08:17:26 ryzen plasmashell[955]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.taskmanager/contents/ui/Task.qml:342: Unable to assign [undefined] to int Dec 27 08:17:26 ryzen plasmashell[955]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.taskmanager/contents/ui/Task.qml:366: Unable to assign [undefined] to QString Dec 27 08:17:27 ryzen plasmashell[955]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 2 (BadValue), sequence: 14043, resource id: 52428817, major code: 142 (Unknown), minor code: 3 Dec 27 08:17:27 ryzen plasmashell[955]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 2 (BadValue), sequence: 14046, resource id: 56623111, major code: 142 (Unknown), minor code: 3 STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Happens randomly with some amount of time between flashing events: 15-30 minutes??? Sometimes won't happen for hours. OBSERVED RESULT Screen goes black for a second or so. Sometimes might happen again a few seconds later. EXPECTED RESULT Screen should not go black. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.53.0 Qt Version: 5.12.0 -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.